Gottfried Olearius (theologian, 1672)

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Gottfried Olearius

Gottfried Olearius (born July 23, 1672 in Leipzig ; † November 10, 1715 there ) was a German philologist and Protestant theologian.

Life

After initial private training, the son of Johannes Olearius (1639–1713) attended philosophical lectures at the University of Leipzig in the summer semester of 1688 at a young age . In the same year, on November 27th, he became a Baccalaureus , on January 18, 1692, he acquired the degree of Magister in Philosophy and in the same year he completed his habilitation at the Leipzig University. Following the customs of the time, he undertook a scholarly trip to Holland and England in 1693, where he met the luminaries of that time. He stayed at Oxford University for a full year to devote himself to philosophy, church history and Greek literature.

On his return to Leipzig he turned to the study of theology, gave lectures at the philosophical faculty, became assessor of the philosophical faculty in 1698 , was appointed to the great prince's college on April 21, 1699 , and on November 27, 1699 as a baccalaureate of theology at the theological faculty and then professor of Greek and Latin languages. After he had obtained his degree in theology on April 14, 1701 , he was rector of the alma mater in the winter semester of 1701/02 , 1703, and in 1706 procancellor of the philosophical faculty, became professor of theology in 1708, as well as assessor of the theological faculty and did his doctorate with the dissertation de Adoratione Dei Patris per Jesum Christum on November 8, 1708 as a doctor of theology.

On April 23, 1710, he received a canonical in Meißen , was associated with it as a preacher in the Paulikirche and supervised the church system at the Leipzig University. In 1713, after the death of his father, he took over the position of Ephorus of the electoral scholarship holders and in 1714 he became assessor at the Leipzig consistory . After dragging off an illness for several years, he eventually became bedridden and died of consumption on a Sunday at 1.30 p.m. at the age of 43. His body was buried on November 12th in the Pauline Church, where an epitaph was also erected.

Act

Olearius' contemporaries describe him as a man with a keen mind and lively disposition who loved the beautiful sciences. He wrote most of his writings in contemporary Latin. He distinguished himself with the translation of the History of Philosophy (1702) by Thomas Stanley , to whose work he added numerous comments. As early as 1709, in his doctoral thesis, he challenged the Socinians' view that Christ was not the mediator between God and man, represented an atypical line of Lutheran orthodoxy and developed his own opinion on certain theological doctrines. He tried to show that Jesus was the only Messiah . The text on this, which appeared in 1714, had its third edition after his death in 1736. Olearius joins the aspirations of Leipzig Pietism at the time , as did his father. His other works deal primarily with historical, grammatical and critical writings on theological topics.

family

Olearius was married twice. His first marriage was on September 13, 1701 with Christina Sophia († July 1702), the youngest daughter of the Leipzig professor Valentin Alberti (1635–1697). After his first wife died in childbirth, he married Christina Sabina in 1703, the only daughter of the lawyer Christian Ephraim Lange, the son of the theologian Samuel Lange (1618–1667) and his wife Catharina Magaretha (née Götze). The daughter of the children is known from their first marriage, Christiane Elisabeth. The second marriage resulted in three sons and a daughter who died before him. The daughters Anna Christiane Olearius (married to the lawyer Dr. Andreas Naundorf), Johanna Sophie and the son Johannes Olearius survived him from his second marriage. The son, however, died shortly after the father and the daughters married appropriately.

Works (selection)

  • Diss. De philosophis exosis. Leipzig 1692
  • Exercitatico ad L. Allatii de scriptis Socratis dialogus. Leipzig 1699
  • Introduction to Roman-German history, from the building of Rome to 1699. Leipzig 1699
  • Historica Philosophae, vitas, opiniones resque gestas et dicta Philosohorum sectae cujusvis complexa. Auctore Th, Stanlejo, ex anglico sermone in latinum translata, emendata et variis dissertationibus atque observationibus passim aucta. Accessit vita Auctoris. Leipzig 1702
  • Diss. De gestis Pauli in urbe Atheniensium ad Actor. 17, 16. Leipzig 1706
  • Diss. De miraculo piscinae Bethesdae Joh. V. Leipzig 1706
  • Historia Symboli Apostololici, cum observationibus ecclesiasticis et criticis ad singulos ejus articulos. Leipzig 1708
  • Diss. Theologica de adoratione The Patris per Jesus Christ. Leipzig 1709
  • Ta ton Philostraton leipomena apanta. Philostratorum quae supersunt omnia / Vita Apollonii libris VIII / Vitae Sophisticarum libis II / Heroica imagines priores atque posteriores et epistolae / accessere / Apollonii Tyanensis epistolae / Eusebii liber adversus Hieroclem Callistrati descript. statuarum / omnia ex mss. codd. recensuit notis perpetuis illustravit versionem totam fere novam fecit Gottfridus Olearius. Lipsiae apud Thomam Fritsch An. MDCCIX.
  • Observationes sacrae in Evangelium Matthaei. Leipzig 1713
  • Prove that Jesus is the true Messiah. Leipzig 1714, 1725, 1736
  • Collegium pastorale or instructions for the soul cure. Leipzig 1718

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personal data
SURNAME Olearius, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1672
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1715
Place of death Leipzig